If you've checked the LinkedIn page or a conference talk of any engineer at Anthropic, OpenAI etc., you've surely stumbled over their somewhat unusual job title 'Member of Technical Staff (MTS)'. What's the motivation to move on from the well-established 'Software Engineer'? I've heard some arguments towards removing the seniority from the title, but that's … Continue reading The reinvention of the ‘Member of Technical Staff’
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Using Frontier Models for Cybersecurity
Anthropic is continuing its rise by providing not only the arguably strongest frontier model with Opus 4.6, but more importantly by shifting the SOTA of AI-based software development with Claude Code. In its most recent addition focused on security, they partnered with Mozilla to investigate the latest Firefox release. After all the dust had settled, … Continue reading Using Frontier Models for Cybersecurity
The dehumanizing side of AI
To me, the best summarization of the current dangers of generative AI comes from the fantastic Ted Chiang in his essay in the New Yorker: The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to … Continue reading The dehumanizing side of AI
Daniel Lenz 